Meet Meadow
From the day when Ash Ketchum set off on his journey to become a Pokémon 
master several years passed. They passed in token of successes and failures, 
but primarily, great battles. Two people have been accompanying him on the 
way to fulfilment of his child dream – Misty and Brock. And also Team Rocket, 
longing for his Pikachu. And I’ll tell you about what happened after cameras 
had stopped following their journey.
	Ash and his friends were approaching the Larch city, hungry as usual. 
But when they came to its port, some noise surprised them. It was like some 
celebration was taking place there, but streets looked ordinarily. No stalls 
or ornamentation anywhere. So they went onwards to find out where does the 
noise come from and they found group of people gathered round two battling 
trainers – long-haired white-haired girl around 20 years, dressed in a red 
summer low-necked dress and black-haired boy in the same age, dressed in 
jeans and a blue T-shirt.
,,Electrode, thunderbolt!” He commanded.
,,You too, Starmie!” She answered.
Then a big explosion came on and whirled up dust to the extent that nobody 
could see anything for a few minutes.
Afterwards, judge’s voice exclaimed: ,,Both Pokémon are unable to battle!”
,,Ninetales, give it to him!”
Fox Pokémon appeared in the light.
But boy didn’t get left behind. ,,Go for it, Mightyena!”
,,Ninetales, water gun!”
,,Mightyena, razor leaf!”
But both attacks were so strong that also both Pokémon were out off battle in 
a few seconds.
Ash squeezed through the crowd to have a better view and he saw how girl 
picked out Gardevoir, boy chose Chikorita.
,,Chikorita, flamethrower!”
,,Gardevoir, dark ball!”
Both Pokémon fainted at the same moment again.
,,None of Pokémon is able to continue in battle!” Judge let know. ,,There’s 
neither winner nor beaten.”
Spectators burst into applause. Both trainers called their Pokémon back and 
than began to bow down.
,,It was a strange battle,” Misty remarked.
,,Yeah, really boring,” added Ash. ,,I’d make it thousand times better.”
Girl required silence by waving her hands. ,,Thank you for coming today, 
we’re glad to see you here. If you have some problems with your Pokémon, you 
know where to find our breeding centre. So come to see us and we’ll be glad 
to help you.
,,Thanks for your attention and goodbye,” boy added.
,,Wait!” Ash shouted out and ran out from the crowd. ,,I challenge you to a 
battle! Both!”
Silence set in and everybody’s eyes flicked from Ash to two speakers and 
back.
Girl smiled. ,,We accept your challenge. But only in case you have a partner 
for a double battle! Unfortunately we have too much work to battle you 
separately.”
Ash paused but therewith thrilled Brock appeared next to him.
,,Who’d let go the opportunity to battle such a beautiful girl!” He 
explained, his eyes shining bright. ,,My name is Brock and my friend is Ash. 
And if you’d like to go for dinner with me…”
,,I’m Meadow and this is my elder brother Vinson,” she pointed at her ex-
rival. ,,Thank you for invitation, maybe later. But now we should move on to 
our battle – it will be double battle, each person can have only one 
Pokémon.”
Ash took a look at Pikachu. ,,You’ll make it, pal, won’t you?”
,,Pika,” was the answer.
,,I choose Golem.” Brock said.
Meadow and Vinson took a glance at each other and than exclaimed almost at 
the same moment: ,,Milotic, Dragonair, go for it!”
Two dragon Pokémon appeared and Ash smiled, pleased with new challenge.
,,Let battle begins!” The same judge who supervised match between Meadow and 
Vinson announced.
Meadow started: ,,Dragonair, ice beam!”
,,Golem, harden!”
,,Milotic, water gun!”
,,Pikachu, thunderbolt!”
Dragonair’s attack didn’t go astray – in spite of its defensive step, Golem 
changed into huge frozen ball. But by collision of Pikachu’s thunderbolt and 
Milotic’s water gun originated great explosion that released him from his icy 
prison.
,,Golem, rock throw!”
,,Watch out, Dragonair!”
Dragonair slid aside and one of the stones flew by his head.
,,Milotic, iron tail!”
,,You too, Pikachu!”
Pokémon clashed but none of them was stronger.
,,Dragonair, hyper beam!”
,,Milotic, join it!”
,,Pikachu, watch out!”
Milotic and Dragonair united their attacks into one big wave. There was no 
chance how to escape. It swept away Pikachu, who tried to avoid it and Golem 
too. Both Pokémon fainted.
,,Pikachu and Golem are unable to continue in battle, Meadow and Vinson are 
the winners.” Judge announced.
,,I lost, that’s not possible!” Ash was dismayed. ,,How did it happen?! I 
never lose!”
,,I wouldn’t be so sure of it,” Misty grinned.
Vinson came to shake hands with him. ,,Don’t worry about it, our Pokémon are 
very well raised. But your Pikachu’s not bad too, it’s all about luck.”
,,You said that you have a breeding centre somewhere near, I’d like to visit 
it,” Ash suggested. ,,I’d like to see how you train Pokémon to know what to 
improve. If it’s possible…”
,,Me too,” Brock added. ,,I want to be the best breeder in the world, so 
every new experience is good. And you have to be really good.”
,,Thanks for the compliment,” Meadow blushed a little bit. ,,You know what? 
We invite you to lunch and we’ll show you everything you want to see. We’re 
here to help other trainers, aren’t we?...

But wherever Ash and his friends appeared, Team Rocket had to be there too. 
And this day wasn’t a rarity.
,,Today’s a perfect day for a little relaxation,” Jessie relished, sprawled 
in the sand and sunbathing. James was lying next to her.
,,You’re right, Jess. I don’t want to do anything today and this beach must 
have been created for inaction.”
At a distance, Meowth was building a sandcastle.
,,And what does your work consist in?” A familiar voice resounded close to 
them.
,,Our breeding centre function also as an asylum for abandoned Pokémon – we 
take care of Pokémon that their trainers didn’t want to or couldn’t have. But 
our main work is breeding Pokémon and learning them attacks they wouldn’t 
learn by themselves in nature. Or sometimes their trainers just don’t know 
how to learn them to them.” Girl’s voice answered. 
James was open-eared. ,,Hey, aren’t that the twerps?”
,,You’re right, it’s them.” Jessie agreed and got up. ,,Let’s follow them, 
now it’s perfect chance to capture that Pikachu and a lot of other rare 
Pokémon. Can you imagine how many of them have to be there in that breeding 
centre?!”
They clothed quickly and run away. Poor Meowth didn’t find out immediately 
that he’s alone with his sandcastle.
,,Heey! Wait for me!” He cried out and followed them.
,,Could I call at your house sometimes?” Brock offered. ,,While we were 
battling, Misty found some accommodation in the town, so we don’t sojourn so 
far. And we’re planning to stay for a while.”
,,Sure,” Meadow answered. ,,We can share our observations.”
After a while they came to small cosy house with extremely huge garden full 
of all kinds of Pokémon who were running there and playing together.
,,How are you?” Meadow welcomed them and unlocked the house door. Espeon came 
to meet her. 
,,This is one of my own Pokémon I train but not use for battles.” She 
explained. ,,She’s one of Pokémon that help me with breeding – she can 
recognize when some female is pregnant so we can take health measures on 
time. Sometimes she finds it out earlier than the female.”
Misty tittered.
,,And what’s more, together with Umbreon they are our breed couple. You know, 
Eevee is very popular Pokémon. Personally, except these two I have also their 
quintuplets who evolved into Jolteon, Vaporeon, Flareon, Leafeon and Glaceon 
and now they have little Eevee but I don’t want it to evolve.”
,,Gee, they’re so cuuute!” Misty enthused when rest of Espeon’s family came. 
,,I’d like to have some too.”
Vinson smiled. ,,No problem, we’ve got few abandoned Eevee here – and other 
Pokémon too. So if you want some of them, you can have it. I’m sure you’ll 
take good care of it.”
Meadow led them into the kitchen, they nestled down and she started to 
prepare a tea.
,,You two are the only one people living in this house?” Misty took interest.
	
,,Yes,” Vinson answered. ,,Our parents died when we were children and since 
then we take care of this place instead of them. But we like this job.”
,,Our younger sister Amber used to live here, but she left in the age of 
twelve. She said this wasn’t what she wanted to do.” Meadow added.
Vinson upraised. ,,If you want, we can show you our garden until water for 
the tea warms up.”
,,Great idea!” Ash exulted.
They walked out to see Pokémon. Most of them crowded around Meadow and Vinson 
to welcome them, Misty flipped over them and wanted to have them all. Ash was 
thinking, which of them would be the best for battling and Brock admired 
them. But suddenly a net fluttered down from the sky and captured a group of 
Nidorans.
,,Hey, what happens?!” Meadow got irritated.
,,Prepare for trouble!” Woman’s voice exclaimed.
,,And make it double!” Man’s voice added.
,,Ah,” Ash sighed. ,,I wonder if they leave us alone one day.”
,,To protect the world from devastation.”
,,To unite all peoples within our nation.”
,,To denounce the evils of truth and love.”
,,To extend our reach to the stars above.”
,,Jessie”
,,James”
,,Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light.”
,,Surrender now, or prepare to fight.”
,,Meowth, that’s right!”
Hot-air balloon appeared in the sky and three members of Team Rocket were 
jeering at Ash and his friends.
,,Who are you?” Vinson wanted to know.
,,We just introduced ourselves, why didn’t you listen to us?!” Jessie got 
into a flap.
,,Give those Pokémon back, immediately!” Misty shouted. ,,They don’t belong 
to you so let them be.”
,,You’re wrong, little girl,” James laughed. ,,We stole them so they DO 
belong to us.”
,,Not for a long!” Brock, who tried to impress Meadow all the time and now he 
got a chance, got irritated. ,,Go, Skarmory!”
Iron Pokémon got out from the Poke ball and made towards the balloon. After 
it created a big hole in it, Jessie, James and Meowth landed on the ground.
,,Go, Seviper!” Jessie ordered.
,,Go, Carnivine!” James added.
,,Pikachu, thunder shock!” Ash exclaimed.
Pikachu jumped high and did the best thunder shock it could. Explosion that 
followed sent Team Rocket for an air trip.”
,,Team Rocket’s blasting off again!” was heard from afar.
,,So we got rid of them again,” Ash rejoiced. ,,I don’t get it, how can doing 
this entertain them.”
Meadow turned her head. ,,Strange people…”
Than everybody went to drink their tea.